i am here with nikesh arora.years investing alongside mashayoshi son, after working for years at google. he is in part two of our exclusive conversation. i asked about who is winning in the self driving car race and how soon they will hit the road. nikesh: i am in the camp that it will be a long time before we see a large proliferation of self driving cars around us. the retooling we need to get to scale is far away. we haven't thought about the ownership model and the societal problems it will cause and how do you park these cars? where you put them? we may see people who can do tests and show you what can work in short order. but large-scale deployment and having an impact on the rental business or ride hailing as this -- is further away than we think. bely: should uber and didi working on self driving cars? nikesh: i don't think the ridesharing businesses should be worried about making their own self driving cars at this point. emily: why not? nikesh: i think it is early. the ride hailing industry has not sett

nikesh arora came to the u.s. for grad school. in 2004 he got the job of a lifetime. larry page in sergey brin hired arora to help move google into an online ad powerhouse, making him one of the most sought after tech execs in the world. a decade later he was named president. but as his retirement approached, arora said it became clear he wasn't quite ready to step down. now arora is one of the most prominent free agents in silicon valley. joining me today on "studio 1.0," former softbank president and google chief business officer, nikesh arora. thanks for joining us, great to have you. >> thank you. emily: i want to start at the beginning. you were born in india. your dad was in the air force. tell me about your up bringing. >> i grew up in a lower middle class family in india. my father worked for the indian air force. we moved every few years from city to city, wherever his job took him. we grew up with some degree of discipline in the house, because that is what you get when you work for someone in the armed forces. emily: tell me about how you came to the u.s. a

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. -- nikesh arora.wo of our exclusive conversation i asked about who drivingng in the self car race and houston they will hit the road. camph: i am in the that believes it will be a long time before we see a large proliferation, -- thel tooling retooling we need to get to scale is far away. we haven't thought about the ownership model and the societal problems it will cause and how do you park these cars? where you put them? we will see people do close in short order, but large-scale deployment and having an impact on the rental business or ride hailing as this is further away than we think weir. emily: should all of these companies be working on self driving cars? i don't think the ridesharing company's should be worried about making self driving cars at this point. emily: why not? nikesh: we haven't quite figured out where the industry is going to stabilize. there are logistics in the way they move cars from one place to another, managing supply and demand. they are early in evolution. i think if they

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nikesh arora came to the u.s. for grad school. in 2004 he got the job of a lifetime.rora to help move google into an online ad powerhouse, making him one of the most sought after tech execs in the world. a decade later he was named president. but as his retirement approached, arora

nikesh arora was raised the son of an indian airport officer and then came to the u.s. a lifetime. larry page and sergey brin hired arora to help build google into an online ad powerhouse, making him one of the most sought after tech execs in the world. a decade later, masayoshi son named him president, with a plan to eventually make him ceo. but as son's retirement approached, arora said it became

nikesh arora was raised the son of an indian air force officer then came to the u.s.ol. in 2004 he got the job of a lifetime. larry page and sergey brin hired arora to help build google into an online ad powerhouse, making him one of the most sought after tech execs in the world. a decade later he was named softbank president with a plan to eventually make him ceo. but as son's retirement approached, arora said it became clear he wasn't quite ready to

nikesh arora was raised the son of an indian air force officer and he came to the u.s.. in 2004 he got the job of a lifetime. larry page and sergey brin hired arora to help move google into an online ad powerhouse, making him one of the most sought after tech execs in the world. a decade later he was named softbank president with a plan to eventually make him ceo. but as son's retirement approached, arora said it became

emily: i spoke to nikesh arora -- formerly of google, and he says the ai conversation is clear as mudit is early days, a lot of unknowns. how would you describe the competition among biggest tech giants? fierce,ompetition is but you should look at their problems people are having. many of the key problems are not addressed by anyone. the people problem, for instance. the collaboration between people in the same organization that have to solve these problems, there's nothing out there. i also think there is too much software engineering, stitching together of software. people are not attacking these problems. for that reason, there's a huge demand and that is why they are turning to our technology. how can you be something for everyone if it is so complicated and requires so much manpower? >> our focus is to simplify it as much as possible. this technology was developed by big companies like google. they have 30,000 engineers, many of them phd's. they take a lot of things for granted. they assume it is easy to do this or that. other companies, it's not so easy. we are taking the tech g